SN95 seats in 89 vert

Bills89GT

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I know a lot of people have done this swap and posted how toos for hatches and notches, but when i was looking into this swap I couldn't find any info for convertibles. So I figured Id take pictures and do a little write up to hopefully help someone out.

The whole thing was relatively easy, I have an 8 pt cage that really got in the way so it wold normally be easier. The seats I got are out of an 04 GT convertible i believe.

I started by removing the back seat by unhooking the bottom seat. Then unbolted the two bolts on the bottom of the back that are a real pain to get to after pulling back on the lower part of it.
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I tried putting the new seat back in as is but it was too wide. I didn't want to cut the seat up so I took the support metal off the back with two pairs of needle nosed pliars to pull the hog rings apart (I wanted to reuse them so I did not cut them).
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I then pulled the aluminum back peice off the old seat which is held on with the rings and glued on. I used the rings I took off to hold the new leather and foam on
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the bottom of the back seat is very simillar to the hatch and notch and involved cutting some of the foam and metal support off the bottom.
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I ended up cutting out some of the metal used to hold the leather on so i pulled another peace of metal out to attach to
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The top peace went back on just as it did before but the bottom I just wedged in there because it was such a tight fit between the cage. if you want to attach the bottom better than that I suggest looking at what 1991notchbackLX did here http://www.stangnet.com/mustang-forums/767102-how-sn95-seats-04-cobra-fox-coupe-many-pics.html
This is how my rears turned out
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The fronts are the same story as with all the other models. Unfortunatly I am tall so I had to ditch the nice power seats and put on the fox slider. I pulled the power one off by unbolting the four bolts from the bottom then the two screws that hold the controls on the front of the seat.
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The fox slider does not fit perfect on the newer seat because it is not flat so I used my favorite BFH and persuaded the seat to be flatter.
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I then cut the plastic clip that holds the bottom of the seat cover on and bolted up the fox slider over it to hold it on without the clip.
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I could not flaten the seat all the way so 3/8" nuts worked perfect as a spacer
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I did the same thing on both seats and they bolted right in place. I also had to take the seat belt holder things off because they were hitting the cage. I hope this helps some of you convertible owners out there :flag:
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